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definition:
an idealistic philosophical and social movement which developed in New England around 1835 in reaction to rationalism. influenced by romanticism,platonism,and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity,and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.
definition in your own words:
Transcendentalism is a philosophy that asserts the primacy of the spiritual and transcendental over the material and empirical.
Word used in a sentence:
The idealism of transcendentalism have way to existential angst a long time ago.
synonym(s):
dreamer,optimist,visionary
Antonym(s):
multiculturalism,formalism,nationalism
